It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.